Avalanches and Landslides

Dangerous flooding has spread across the Lehigh Valley once again Monday, and the National Weather Service says things will only worsen as heavy rains inundate the area through Tuesday.

In Bethlehem, Musikfest vendors cleaning up Wednesday morning were asked to leave as the Monocacy Creek again overflowed its banks. The rain-swollen creek flooded three platzes at the outset of the 10-day festival, which ended Sunday night.

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Dangerous flooding has spread across the Lehigh Valley once again Monday, and the National Weather Service says things will only worsen as heavy rains inundate the area through Tuesday.
In Bethlehem, Musikfest vendors cleaning up Wednesday morning were...

Across the Lehigh Valley, high water turned a leisurely Saturday afternoon into a slog. A strong thunderstorm apparently was the culprit, drenching the Quakertown and Southern Lehigh areas in particular as it rumbled across the region.
A landslide closed...

Four Muhlenberg College students studying in Nepal were safe and fine Saturday after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake left about 1,000 people dead in the region.
All of the students had made contact with the college or their families by Saturday afternoon,...

KAPPL, Austria (AP) — A Freeride World Tour event in the Austrian Alps has been canceled after the second starter set off an avalanche — from which he escaped with bruised ribs and legs.
Organizers say French free skier Julien Lopez set off the 4,000...

Muhlenberg coach Mike Donnelly has family from western New York.
They recently shared photos showing how several feet of snow from a storm earlier this week completely blocked the view from a sliding glass door.
Come Saturday, Donnelly and Co. are...

KATHMANDU - At least 20 people, including eight foreign hikers and a group of yak herders, were killed in Nepal by unseasonal blizzards and avalanches triggered by the tail of cyclone Hudhud, officials said on Wednesday.
Rescue officials said the death...

Four mountain climbers and two guides escorting them to the summit of Mount Rainier were presumed dead after searchers found a trail of scattered equipment on Saturday, authorities said.Gary Harrington, operations director for Alpine Ascents...

After 16 Mount Everest porters died in an avalanche on April 18, the world reacted with sorrow and outrage. Was any Westerner's adventure vacation worth so many lives? But the place of Sherpas, the ethnic group that supports climbers, in Everest's unusual...

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What a load of garbage.The March landslide at the Chrin Bros. Sanitary Landfill in Williams Township will keep Industrial Drive — which provides a northern link between Morgan Hill and Morvale roads — closed until at least mid-October.About 14 acres of...

Chris Shala wasn't worried Wednesday night when the rain started falling in Bath. With two pumps running, he thought he could drain as much as 7,500 gallons per hour. The owner of Kicker's Pub on Main Street figured he'd be able to keep up if water...

A rock slide on Interstate 78 in Williams Township had closed one lane over the weekend, but all three lanes were expected to be available Monday morning, according to the commission that oversees the stretch of highway.The Delaware River Joint Toll...

Q: I am inspired to write to you regarding the rock-slide incidents on the Turnpike's Northeast Extension that I learned about from a Morning Call article in September. The story reported on two very scary rock slides in which large rocks fell onto the...

The rock slide that disabled three vehicles on the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Slatington last week was eerily similar to a mishap there three months ago, an Allentown man said.Terry Kennedy of S. Church Street said Friday he and...

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Because of geographical constraints, residents of the Steel City section of Lower Saucon Township usually have only two ways to leave their neighborhood. After the remmants of Hurricane Ivan passed through this fall, only one is left.A mudslide caused...

The rising Delaware River washed over its banks Sunday and into waterfront towns from Delaware Water Gap to Easton to New Hope, driving thousands from their homes and causing what is expected to be tens of millions of dollars in damages.By the time the...

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A Doylestown man is suing an Upper Salford Township ski resort two years after he allegedly flew out of control on a snow-tubing chute and smashed his face into a metal ladder.The lawsuit was filed Monday by James and Susan Brant of Short Road,...